Intercontinental Exchange

The rise of cyber crime threatens the links between traders and markets, and will only accelerate as investors boost their reliance on technology. What follows is a conversation about the markets, cyber security and the coming challenges that investors and traders face in the 21st century economy.

Intercontinental Exchange, the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced that it has successfully completed the transition of the Liffe London soft commodity futures and options contracts to ICE Futures Europe.

Wedbush Securities, one of the nation’s leading financial services providers, today announced the signing of an agreement to acquire select assets of Crossland LLC including its futures execution and clearing operations.

With the movie "Trading Places" celebrating 30 years this year and the upcoming launch of our own video and movie player, Alpha TV, we looked back at our list of Top Trading Movies. We took a crack at this last year, but here are our revised and expanded choices.

In a year dominated by crises — both natural and political — squeezing our annual list of largest influencers down to 20 was difficult. One thing this year highlighted was that money and power trump all as we learned that — at least in the banking world — there are some that are too-big-to-prosecute.